Technology

  Business laptops tend to be heavy and not particularly stylish. HP is trying to buck the trend with the Elite Dragonfly, a thin and light laptop aimed at business users. HP added a raft of premium features, along with refined styling that borrows from some of HP’s competitors. It …

  Facebook launched its Portal smart displays almost a year ago, following a lengthy delay in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, there’s a new generation of Portal hardware. For anyone who still inexplicably trusts Facebook enough to put one of its cameras in their homes, there are …

  There are numerous music streaming services, most of which have largely similar offerings. Amazon has just rolled out a new version of its own with ultra-high fidelity audio. For as little as $12.99 per month, you can get access to millions of songs at higher quality than other services, …

  It’s been obvious for years that consumer devices cannot be trusted to secure user data, but there have been relatively few studies into exactly how poorly the modern ecosystem actually is. Researchers at Northeastern University and the Imperial College London have recently conducted a thorough analysis of 81 different …

  When AMD launched Epyc in August, it unveiled a top-to-bottom product stack that was set to challenge the best Intel had to offer on the Xeon side of its product family. The highest-end CPU previously announced, the Epyc 7742, is a 64-core chip with a 2.25GHz base clock, 3.4GHz …

Amazon today is introducing a new perk for Prime members: free mobile game content. The company, which already offers Twitch Prime benefits through its subsidiary, will now give its Prime members various in-game items for PUBG Mobile, the popular battle royale title from Tencent. The items launching today include an …

  When AMD launched its 7nm Ryzen CPUs in July, it promised that there was another high-end chip still to come — the Ryzen 9 3950X, a 16-core processor with a 3.5GHz base clock and a 4.7GHz boost. In the intervening months, however, it’s become clear that the company was …

  IBM plans to make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network next month. The new system, which should go online by the middle of October, will be the largest universal quantum computer that’s available for general commercial use. Google announced a 72-qubit quantum computer …

  Samsung has announced new PCIe 4.0 SSDs, with a trio of new, baked-in technologies that could represent a significant improvement for drive features and reliability. The company is debuting 19 models based on the PM1733 and PM1735, with transfer speeds of up to 8,000MB/s. According to Samsung, both of …

  Speeding up a slow PC can be a challenge, particularly when dealing with older hardware that may be on the cusp of needing an upgrade or replacement anyway. Sometimes, a system simply needs a fresh OS install or driver update to perform significantly better. In other cases, upgrade or …